The run closed June 29, 1980
- Opened
- March 1, 1979
- Closed
- June 29, 1980
- Performances
- 557
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- George Gershwin Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 47th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 3 more that season
| 2000 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2005 | Revival Revival · John Doyle | 349 perf. |
| 2023 | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Revival · Thomas Kail | 464 perf. |
Who was in it35 named
Joaquin Romaguera
Jack Eric Williams
Carole Doscher
Nancy Eaton
Mary Pat Green
Skip Harris
Marthe Ihde
Nancy Killmer
Frank Kopyc
Spain Logue
Pamela Mclernon
Duane Morris
Robert Ousley
Richard Warren Pugh
Maggie Task
Michael Kalinyen
Kevin Marcum
Carolyn Marlow
Candace Rogers
16 of these 35 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 19 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters9 roles recorded
Denis Quilley Sweeney Todd
Sheila Hancock Mrs. Lovett
Andrew C. Wadsworth Anthony Hope
Mandy More Johanna Barker
Michael Staniforth Tobias Ragg
Austin Kent Judge Turpin
David Wheldon-Williams Beadle Bamford
Dilys Watling The Beggar Woman
John Aron Adolfo Pirelli
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Harold Prince
- Choreographer
- Larry Fuller
- Producer
- Richard Barr, Charles Woodward, Robert Fryer, etc.
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 8 from 9 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at all.
- No show page for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.